Astoria Dayze · Design Board V3 · The Ruled Site, Assembled

Ruled · The face

The Front Room

The whole site's entrance, composed the way it will greet a stranger: the river first, then the day, posted. Everything below the wordmark is the site as a visitor meets it.

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The Astoria-Megler Bridge entering from the left over the Columbia River, three cormorants on pilings in the foreground, fall leaves on the wind, sun rays through cloud — The river at Astoria in the fall dress. The site wears the season it is in: this is the current dress, late October. Three cormorants, each drawn in its own pose: one drying its wings, one hunched, one with its neck to the sky.

The same bridge and cormorants view in fair weather, bright sun and open sky — **The same view, fair weather.** The composition never moves; the season changes the light, the sky, and what the wind carries.

A rainbow over a fishing boat, rain falling on the left, sun breaking on the right — **Storm season is a dress still owed,** drawn on this same composition. The rainbow study at right is an open proposal, shown in full below.

A red triangular channel marker numbered 12 on the river, sun and cloud behind — 12 · Headed out

A green square channel marker numbered 7 on the river, sun and cloud behind — 7 · Coming home

The river's own code, borrowed whole: red takes you out, green brings you home. Shape, number, and word carry it together, never color alone. The day's runs are posted with the same marks.

Today on the RiverMonday, October 26, 2026 · Posted for today

Time you have	The run	Cost	Mark
Under an hour	First Hour in Astoria Walk the river, eat off a boat. The shortest honest run in town.	Free, plus lunch money	12
A few hours	First Three Hours The town in its own order: river first, then the museum that explains it, then the film story, then something sweet.	Costs money, lightly	14
Half a day	The Family Run Built for small legs and honest appetites: a free hands-on museum, the trolley, ice cream, and a film if the weather turns.	Mostly free	16
Half a day, unhurried	The Rain Run Rain is a season here, not a spoiler: film, a great house, the river's museum, coffee, an early dinner.	Costs money	18
The whole day	The Story Run Oldest first: the expedition's winter fort, the film jail, the captain's house, the streets below the streets, the column above everything.	Costs money	20
The whole day	River Work Run The working river end to end: the cannery museum, the walk along the water, and smoked fish to carry home.	Mostly free, plus coffee and smoked fish	22
Tonight	The Evening Run The view in the last of the light, dinner downtown, and one feature in a 1925 theater.	Costs money: dinner, and a ticket	7

Runs, shapes, and cost lines are the site's own authored record. Facts checked October 26, 2026.

Rain's On One tap re-posts this whole board as the rainy day: covered runs forward, the day re-dealt in words. What the rainy state should look like is an open proposal, directly below.

Open · Awaiting a ruling

Two Proposals, Marked Open

Everything else on this board is settled. These two are Butters' proposals only, drawn so they can be judged, and labeled in red wherever they stand.

Open proposal 1 · The rainy state's face

Rain's On, wearing the rainbow

Proposal: when Rain's On is tapped, the front room keeps its composition and changes its sky to this study: rain falling on the left, sun breaking on the right, one boat low on the water, Washington a single treed ridge. Rain and sun in one frame is the truest picture of an Astoria wet day, and the state change becomes something a visitor can see, not just read. If it is not ruled in, the rainy state ships in words and re-dealt runs alone, which already works.

Rainbow arching over a red fishing boat; rain streaks fall on the left side, bold sun rays fill the right — Study plate: Candidate Two from the plate study, proposed as the Rain's On plate. Concept grade, like everything here.

Open proposal 2 · The site's band

The cormorant frieze as the recurring band

Proposal: this frieze, five cormorants in five different poses on their pilings with the sea lions asleep below, becomes the band the site carries at the foot of its rooms and across its printed sheets: the one repeating graphic a visitor learns to recognize as Dayze's own edge. It repeats as a band, never as copied birds inside other pictures. Unruled, it appears nowhere in the rooms above or below.

Five cormorants in five distinct poses on wooden pilings above the water, sea lions resting on a float, sun rays and one band of rain — The frieze cropped to band height, the way it would run along a page foot. Full plate in the plate study.

Room 2 · Runs and day plans

A Day, Laid Out Like a Journey

Whole days, worked out stop by stop, with the hard decisions answered before a visitor has to make them. The room's shape is the day's shape: a line you travel, not a pile you scroll.

The Story Run · One day, oldest first

Fort Clatsop

Costs money

Oregon Film Museum

Costs money

Flavel House Museum

Astoria Underground Tours

The Underground runs Saturday afternoons only. On any other day, the Column takes that hour and the story loses nothing.

The Astoria Column

Free

End here at golden hour if the day allows; the climb is free and the whole run is visible from the top.

Stops and cost lines from the run's authored record; the two notes are the run's own decision points, printed where the choice happens.

The seven runs, posted whole	What it costs, in words
First Hour in Astoria	Free, plus lunch money
First Three Hours	Costs money, lightly: two admissions and an ice cream
The Rain Run	Costs money: museum admissions and dinner
The Story Run	Costs money: park pass and admissions
River Work Run	Mostly free, plus coffee and smoked fish to carry home
The Family Run	Mostly free: a trolley pass and ice cream
The Evening Run	Costs money: dinner, and a ticket

Print this day Every run is also a printed sheet: one sheet, one day, readable at arm's length in daylight. Paper is a first-class way out of this room.

Back to the board, or onward: the front room posts tonight from here.

Room 4 · The food finder

Where to Eat, as a Market Board

The room is a market board, carried whole from Design Board V2: stalls in the order a day gets hungry, each entry carrying its evidence on its face, and the honest gaps printed at full size.

DeliversTakes reservationsWalk-insTakeoutCosts, from menus

Ninety-two places checked on October 26, 2026. Nineteen publish whether they deliver; nine publish a reservation fact; sixty-five publish neither. Where a place publishes nothing, the finder prints nothing, and the filter says how much of the town it truly covers.

Akres on the Pier
Greek, Mediterranean, and seafood on Pier 12. $$: starters $16 to $23 and Greek specials $26 to $32 seen on its menu. Mon to Thu and Sun 12 to 8 PM, Fri to Sat 12 to 9 PM (its menu page).

Astoria Coffee House & Bistro
Coffeehouse and bistro downtown. Opens at 8 or 9 AM and closes between 3 and 9 PM, by day. Its site displays a $10 to $20 range.

Athena Mediterranean Kitchen
Inside the historic cannery building at Pier 39. Hours and prices not verified: this entry says so at the same size as everything else, rather than guess.

Alma's Mexican Cuisine
A food cart at the Buoy Beer taproom, the coming-home end of a River Work Run.

Back to the board, or onward: the runs name the places they eat at, and each name leads back here.

New room · Galleries

The Galleries, and the Walk Between Them

Seventeen galleries verified in Astoria; thirteen are showing named work right now. Fifteen stand on one downtown walk, and the room is built as that walk: a street you travel west to east, with the river at your shoulder. Warrenton has no gallery; the walk is Astoria's.

THE COLUMBIA RIVERThe Riverwalk runs along the water, north of every stop

STOP 1 · WEST END

Astoria Art Loft

106 3rd St

New work every month. The October show's title was not published, and this card does not invent one.

STOP 2

Astoria Visual Arts

959 Commercial St

Transformations: Reclaiming the Discarded, work reclaimed from the transfer station, to Nov 8.

STOP 3 · 10TH ST

The 10th Street cluster

106, 120 and 372 10th St

Angi D Wildt: Sarah Polenick's plein air coast. Paul Polson: a retrospective, 1970 to now. The Studio Collective: Scary Good Art!

STOP 4

Tater Gallery

1004 Marine Dr, Suite H

Chris Larson's own room: acrylic, linocut, pen and ink.

STOP 5 · MARINE DR

LightBox Photographic

1045 Marine Dr

Natural Harmony, landscape photographs, to Nov 11. Next door, Salty Raven shows its founder's own work, painted live on Artwalk days.

STOP 6

Cambium Gallery

1030 Duane St

A gallery with a coffee bar inside. No current show published on its own site.

STOP 7

Imogen Gallery

240 11th St

A Sky Beneath You, photographs of the lower Columbia estuary, to Nov 9.

STOP 8

RiverSea Gallery

1160 Commercial St

Deep Northwest, paintings by Erik Sandgren, to Nov 10.

STOP 9

Munktiki

1241 Duane St

Tiki ceramics from a family studio. New work is released regularly; no named show is published.

STOP 10 · EAST END

Jadene Studios and Confluence

1292 and 1295 Commercial St

Across the street from each other: Jadene's International Travels, and Confluence's Little Hauntings, with West Coast Artisans upstairs.

One leg more, along the river: the Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Dr, showing This is Our Place with the Chinook Indian Nation and Cedar and Sea, credited exactly as the museum prints them. The walk's only paid room: adults $18, from the museum's own page.

Off the walk, up the hill: the Royal Nebeker Art Gallery at the college shows Thanatopsis. Its closing date is printed two ways by its own holders, and its card prints both rather than choose.

The same walk, in words: the stops above are the walk's written twin, in walking order. Nobody needs the picture to have the town. Show titles are the galleries' own; the Second Saturday Artwalk walks this same ground monthly, noon to 8 PM.

Shows, addresses, and hours checked October 26, 2026, from the galleries' own pages, their Art Guide, and the Downtown Association's Artwalk listing. Thirteen conflicts found in that research are printed on the cards they belong to, not smoothed over.

Back to the board, or onward: coffee and lunch stand on this same walk, in the food finder.

New layer · Things to do

Things to Do, Posted Like a Tide Table

A harbor town already knows this shape: a posted table you read down, not a feed you scroll. Fifty-two doings were swept on October 26, 2026, thirty-eight of them new to the site's research. These twelve are the ones shaped to build a day around. Where a holder publishes no price, the table prints that, at full size.

The doing	When it starts	What it costs, as published	Posture
Start any time, or walk up
Climb the Astoria Column	Daily, from 5 AM	Free	Drop in
Fort George brewery tours	Saturdays and Sundays, 1 PM and 4 PM	Not published	Drop in
Audio tours and scavenger hunts	Start any time	$14.99 the Uniontown audio tour · $12.99 the hunts	Drop in
Astoria Aquatic Center swim	Drop-in hours published	$8 · $6 · $20 a family	Drop in
Bowling, and Gizmo's Arcade	From midday; Cosmic Bowl Friday and Saturday nights	Not published	Drop in
Junior Ranger at Fort Clatsop	Drop in, at the fort	Free	Drop in
Blackberry Bog farm stand and pumpkin patch	Weekends, in season	Not published	Drop in
Evenings, and the ones you book
Astoria Ghost Tour	On the hour, in the evening	$20 · $15 for 12 and under	Drop in
Maritime Museum trivia at Buoy Beer	Third Thursdays, 6:30 PM	Free	Drop in
Escape Astoria	Booked by the hour, to 7 or 8 PM	Not published	Book ahead
Marvin's crabbing charters	From Hammond, by booking	From $160 a person, gear and instruction included	Book ahead
The season itself
King Tides, with the Oregon King Tides Project	Nov 23 to 27 · Dec 22 to 26 · Jan 20 to 24	Free	Drop in

The honest negatives stand in the record: no whale-watching boat sails from Astoria, no sightseeing cruise departs here, no axe throwing, no u-pick inside either town, no bike-share, and eight more. The site can say what is not here as plainly as what is.

Back to the board, or onward: the runs already reach for several of these by name.

Room 11 · Movies · Ruled October 26, 2026

Filmed Here. Showing Tonight.

Design A hangs in the room; Design B is the sheet you take home. The posters are the films' own, exhibited and credited; nothing on the wall is an imitation of a poster, because each piece is one.

The Exhibition Wall: The Goonies poster at hero scale, salon rows of the Astoria films' own posters oldest to newest, The Ring Two in a black bay, the county six in a steel register at the foot — **Design A, the Exhibition Wall, in place.** Eighteen Astoria titles and six from the county, hung with their own artwork. Two titles have no surviving art, *The Fisherman's Bride* (1909) and *California Mix* (1981), and hang as labeled empty frames, first in line, not hidden. The credits ledger for every poster stands with the study.

The River of Years: the same film titles hung above and below a steel band of years, the county titles arriving as a green tributary — **Design B, the River of Years, is the room's printed take-home sheet.** The same twenty-four titles as a river profile: an empty mooring in 1909, seventy quiet years, the flood crest of 1985 to 1995, and the independent years still flowing.

Tonight at the Two Cinemas

Astoria Gateway Cinemas

1875 Marine Dr

Tonight's showtimes sit here, from the cinema's own listings, with the date they were checked.

The Columbian Theater

1102 Marine Dr

One feature a night. Its showtime sits here, from the theater's own listings, with the date checked.

Free always. No account, no app store. Showtimes are never promised live: they print with their checked date.

Back to the board, or onward: dinner first, in the food finder; the Evening Run ends at a feature.

The whole map

The Rest of the Site, on the Record

Twelve rooms in all. Six are walked above; the front room is one of them. These are the rest, each with its one job and its honest state. They are drawn in this same hand when they are built; none of them is a new design question.

Room	Its one job	State
The calendar	What is on: today, tonight, this weekend, a chosen date, browsable and filterable	Standing; face drawn at build
All businesses	The whole town as a browsable ledger: 292 records, Astoria and Warrenton counted as themselves	Standing; face drawn at build
The story	The past at visitor scale: today in the story, the full year index, the Native Nations doors in the holders' own words	Standing in two of three scales
Free and worth paying for	Cost in both directions with equal dignity: the free town, and paying less, honestly	Standing; face drawn at build
Books based here	The shelf: ten verified Astoria titles, and where to get them as verified	Standing; face drawn at build
Visit other places on the coast	The trip whole: the other towns as journeys, and the road back to Portland	Standing; face drawn at build
The stamp passport	The paper keepsake: fifteen stop boxes with date blanks and drawing space. No prizes, no duty on any business	Standing; a paper layer
About and corrections	What this site is, that it is free always, who keeps it, and the one door for a correction	Owed; prescribed, unbuilt

Room inventory and movement model: the whole-site map of October 26, 2026. Layers that are not rooms: print sheets off every run, the day-pack for the Riverwalk's dead zones, the kids' paper layer, and the drawn map plates, each with a written twin.

The record

What This Board Stands On

Rulings embodied

The face: Candidate One from the plate study (the bridge on one side, three cormorants), ruled October 26, 2026, shown in the fall dress because the season is fall. The whole-town image is out, permanently; the face is composed of elements.
The whole site wears the poster hand: bold, bright, flat sunny color; clouds, rain, sun rays, and wood as drawn matter; no aging, no distress, no patina, no sepia, no tattoo style, no clip-art, no repeated silhouettes.
The movie wall: Design A hangs in the Movies room and Design B is its printed sheet, ruled October 26, 2026. The films' own poster art only, credited; imitated lettering is dead as a method.
The pattern is the Daily Run: the day posted as runs by the time a visitor has, cost in words, the marker code (red out, green home) carried by shape, number, and word.
Everything here is concept grade. These plates are composition studies. Production art is a separate, hand-drawn stage, and nothing on this board claims to be it.

Open, and marked open

The Rain's On face (the rainbow study as the rainy state's plate): Butters' proposal, awaiting a ruling.
The cormorant frieze as the site's recurring band: Butters' proposal, awaiting a ruling.
Named but unbuilt: the About and corrections room; the Story room's standing-where-it-happened route (waiting on the Archive record); lodging's placement; McMinnville. The whole-site map holds each one's place and rules nothing by silence.

Why each room is not the stacked skeleton

Front room: a harbor departure board under a painted sky: the day is posted as a table a stranger reads across (time, run, cost, mark), not scrolled down.
Runs: a journey line. The day runs as stations on a track (across on a wide screen, down on a phone), decisions branching as sidings where the choice happens; the seven runs post as a timetable sheet beneath.
Food finder: a market board, carried from V2: stalls in the order a day gets hungry, evidence on each entry's face, gaps printed at full size.
Galleries: a walked street. The room's ground plan is the walk itself, river at the shoulder, stops in walking order; the list is the plate and the plate is the list.
Things to do: a tide table. A posted harbor table read down by posture (drop in, book ahead, the season), the way this town already reads the river's own tables.
Movies: a gallery hang and a sheet of paper. One wall, hung once, at full scale; its second design exists as the printed object a visitor carries away.

Access law on this board

Gates ACC-1 to ACC-13 from the whole-site map bind this board itself. Body text is never under 16px; entry facts never under 15px; source lines never under 13px, and a caveat stands at the same size as the fact it qualifies (the unverified food entry and the unpublished prices are set full size). Every control on the board is at least 48px tall. Text pairings used, computed: tar on hull 13.74, tar on sun 11.92, tar on cream 13.73, hull on tar 13.74, hull on green 7.18, hull on steel 6.02, green on hull 7.18, steel on hull 6.02, red on hull 5.39 (labels and headlines). No saturated color ever carries another saturated color as text. The palette's bright plate colors (sky, sun, rainbow, water) are decoration and carry no words. The galleries plate ships with its written twin standing as the same surface.

Research this board stands on

The plate study, the movie wall exhibit study and its credits ledger, Design Board V2, the whole-site map and accessibility layer, the galleries layer, the doings universe sweep, the books and food fields pass, the skeleton's authored runs and stops, and the brief with its addendum. All October 2026, all holder-sourced. The full record stands in RECORD.md beside this board.